N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

A McKinsey report suggests that organizations embracing continual improvement experience 20-30% productivity gains. Implementing Lean Principles: Lean methodologies, like Six Sigma, can optimize processes and minimize inefficiencies. A learning organization fosters ongoing learning, innovation, and improvement among its members.

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Learning Organization Innovation Organization Six Sigma 235

Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. But ACMP surveyed people who already consider themselves to be change practitioners. Project Management. Human Resources.

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Six Sigma Management Human Resources Project 124

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Management and Leadership Development – strengthening supervisory, management, and executive skills around an XYZ model of managerial competencies. So accountability and performance management of those at the end of the product or service chain is highly demotivating and unproductive.

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Webinar Six Sigma Development Senge 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. At first glance, the definition of productivity appears remarkably similar. Let me explain.

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Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Which do you respond to first?

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. Beginning with early accounts of the prowess of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS), this article offers personal reflections on the fabric of TPS and present day explanations of Lean.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Of course, government has long looked to business for new ways of managing. Bush's President's Management Agenda , and President Obama appointed the country's first Chief Performance Officer. Government has traditionally looked to business for tools and techniques to help improve productivity and cut costs through greater efficiency.

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Efficiency Six Sigma Benchmarking Outsourcing 8